NCAA.com | May 7, 2018 2018 NCAA Division III Softball Championship bracket announced DIII Softball: 2018 Selection Show Share INDIANAPOLIS β The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship. The regional round will be held May 11-13. Four teams will compete at 14 regional sites and three teams will compete at two regional sites. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 18 and 19. The finals, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City All-Sports Association, will be held May 24-29 at USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. All rounds will use a double-elimination format. RELATED: View the regional brackets | Interactive bracket | Champ history Forty-two conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A). One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 19 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining institutions in Pool B. The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference β Mount Aloysius American Southwest Conference β Texas-Tyler Capital Athletic Conference β Christopher Newport Centennial Conference β Gettysburg City University of New York Athletic Conference β Staten Island College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin β Illinois Wesleyan Colonial States Athletic Conference β Immaculata Commonwealth Coast Conference β Western New England Empire 8 β St. John Fisher Great Northeast Athletic Conference β Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island) Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference β Franklin Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference β Luther Landmark Conference β Moravian Liberty League β Ithaca Little East Conference β Massachusetts Boston Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference β Framingham State Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association β Hope Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth β Messiah Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom β Manhattanville Midwest Conference β Cornell College Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference β St. Thomas (Minnesota) New England Collegiate Conference β Bay Path New England Small College Athletic Conference β Williams New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference β MIT New Jersey Athletic Conference β Rowan North Atlantic Conference β Husson North Coast Athletic Conference β DePauw North Eastern Athletic Conference β Penn State-Berks Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference β Benedictine (Illinois) Northwest Conference β Linfield Ohio Athletic Conference β Ohio Northern Old Dominion Athletic Conference β Virginia Wesleyan Presidents' Athletic Conference β Thomas More Skyline Conference β Mount Saint Mary (New York) Southern Athletic Association β Berry Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference β Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference β Texas Lutheran St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference β Greenville State University of New York Athletic Conference β SUNY Geneseo Upper Midwest Athletic Conference β Northwestern-St. Paul USA South Athletic Conference β Maryville (Tennessee) Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference β Wisconsin-Whitewater The institution selected from Pool B was: Emory The 19 institutions selected from Pool C were: Amherst Calvin Case Western Reserve Central (Iowa) Coe East Texas Baptist George Fox Lake Forest Lynchburg The College of New Jersey Ramapo Randolph-Macon Saint Benedict St. Maryβs (Indiana) Salisbury Transylvania Trine Tufts Wisconsin-Oshkosh REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS: Atlanta, Georgia β Emory Bloomington, Illinois β Illinois Wesleyan Cambridge, Massachusetts β MIT Decorah, Iowa β Luther Ewing, New Jersey β The College of New Jersey Glassboro, New Jersey β Rowan *Holland, Michigan β Hope Ithaca, New York β Ithaca McMinnville, Oregon β Linfield Newport News, Virginia β Christopher Newport Notre Dame, Indiana β St. Maryβs (Indiana) Rochester, New York β St. John Fisher *St. Paul, Minnesota β St. Thomas (Minnesota) Seguin, Texas β Texas Lutheran Whitewater, Wisconsin β Wisconsin-Whitewater Williamstown, Massachusetts β Williams * The regional sites at Holland, Michigan and St. Paul, Minnesota will be conducted Thursday-Saturday, May 10-12. 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